فصلنامه طراحی شهری .... Urban Design Journal Quarterly

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Urban Design 122 – Spring 2012

Urban Design 122 – Spring 2012

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موضوع: شهرسازی معاصر

Temporary Urbanism

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Publication Date: 01 April 2012


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This issue of Urban Design journal looks at Temporary Urbanism, guest edited by Irena Bauman, architect and patron of the Urban Design Group. Temporary urbanism is growing in popularity as a response to the need for low cost, loose fit and creative solutions to increasing liveability factors in cities, as well as fighting blight caused by the economic downturn. Reshaping space for changing needs, encouraging the use of unoccupied places in innovative ways, and creating a vibrant street culture improves the economic competitiveness of a city. The articles in this issue are from both England and Denmark, and open with Henning Thomsen writing about this new form of squatting, and the coalition between authorities and finance, and the unsalaried, anarchic and creative grass roots, visiting an example in Copenhagen Tina Saaby, City Architect for Copenhagen explains Lively Copenhagen - a municipal initiative to use temporary measures in the development of the city to promote urban life at all scales. The article includes reasons for using temporary measures and case studies in Carlsberg, Sundholm and Ørestad. Peter Schultz Jørgensen, Planner of the Municipality of Roskilde and Jes Vagnby, architect of the Rosklide Festival examine the effect of the international music festival on the planning of the area, and its temporariness in keeping the city open to change at the hands of urban society

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In England, Cany Ash looks at adaptable neighbourhoods as resilient and community-driven urban economies, working in Canning Town, Leicester Waterside and Leather Lane Market; these temporary projects try and develop ideas rather than lock them into top-heavy investment. John Harrison describes perceptions of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - ‘the town that dare not speak its name – with its cycle of long-term socio-economic problems. His temporary interventions address perceptions of place, community confidence and civic engagement, as part of community-led regeneration. Florian Kossak, Head of Masters in Urban Design, Sheffield University School of Architecture explores how students experiment with temporary and permanent urban design proposals within their real setting, and the rise of radical urbanism




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Urban Design 121 – Winter 2012

Urban Design 121 – Winter 2012

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موضوع: طراحی شهری و توسعه گر

Urban Design & the Developer

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Publication date: 01 January 2012
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Urban Designis the leading journal in its field. Each issue provides in-depth analysis of topical themes, with contributions from leading practitioners, policymakers and academics from the UK and abroad. This extended issue of 56 pages offers a mix of articles, short reports and listings that reflect the diversity of urban design today. This is a journal that no urban design professional or student should be without.
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Urban Design 120 – Autumn 2011

Urban Design 120 – Autumn 2011

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موضوع: جا به جایی مسافرین توسط وسایل مختلف حمل و نقل شهری

Transport Interchanges
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Publication Date: 01 October 2011


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This issue of Urban Design journal looks at Transport Interchanges with examples from London and Europe, and guest edited by Sir Peter Hall and Christopher Martin, and generously sponsored by Urban Initiatives. It examines how the design process can produce excellent interchanges between buses, cycles, trains, trams and the surrounding streets

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Yet this process is not easy; Brian Edwards sets out the features and principles of good interchange design for urban designers. John Dales describes three case studies which when implemented, will transform local areas and daily lives through simple but hard-won changes to old infrastructure and patterns of transport management. Anton Valk, Chief Executive of Abellio, the Dutch transport group now running services in Britain, describes the very model of interchanges: Amsterdam’s Bijlmer ArenA Station, which combines many transport modes and efficiently links major Dutch cities.

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June Taylor reports back from visits undertaken for the Sintropher research project, on interchanges in north western Europe, and finds that smaller interchanges are often most attractive but equally hard to deliver. Kate Pasquale and John McNulty describe Transport for London’s Interchange team and their interventions at Stratford Station, supporting the Olympics and major Stratford City development.​

This issue also features articles remembering the work of two urban designers Steve Tiesdell and John Seed, who each made a great contribution to the field. UDG Patron Sir Richard MacCormac sets out his current design research work on creating more appropriate residential densities in London’s outer suburbs. Lee Pugalis explores how urban design can help to set economic development in a local context in Durham.​

This year’s shortlisted Francis Tibbalds Practice Awards are shown here for readers to judge their merits, with projects from John Thompson and Partners, URBED, Richards Partington Architects, studio REAL, NJA+U and NEW Masterplanning; the breadth and scale of ideas explored are as good as ever. The annual Publisher Award book reviews are also reviewed by the UDG’s judging panel, who will reveal the winner in February 2012 at the UDG’s Awards evening

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Urban Design 119 - Summer 2011

Urban Design 119 - Summer 2011

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موضوع: هند

INDIA
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Publication date: 01 July 2011


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Urban Designis the leading journal in its field. Each issue provides in-depth analysis of topical themes, with contributions from leading practitioners, policymakers and academics from the UK and abroad. This extended issue of 56 pages offers a mix of articles, short reports and listings that reflect the diversity of urban design today. This is a journal that no urban design professional or student should be without.
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Urban Design 118 - Spring 2011

Urban Design 118 - Spring 2011

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موضوع: طراحی لندن

DESIGNING LONDON
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Publication date: 01 April 2011

This issue of Urban Design addresses ‘Designing London’ with articles from many of London’s leading designers, commentators and observers, edited by Professor Matthew Carmona.Lord Richard Rogers leads by asking why, despite recent efforts, London struggles to deliver a coherent high quality public realm; for him, administrative fragmentation represents a key problem. However for Sir Terry Farrell and Eugene Dreyer, the absence of concentrated power makes planning London an inherently inclusive, collaborative and incremental process. It is London’s underlying urban patterns that make it unique. Through the work of Foster & Partners, Spencer de Grey argues that London is essentially a privately funded city and always has been. The challenge for the designer is to add value to the private developer, occupiers and the city as a whole. Anna Minton, however, laments a trend towards large parts of the city falling into private hands, creating places characterised by security, defensible architecture and strict regulations. The democratic nature of London’s space is threatened unless it can be created and managed by the public sector once again. Nicky Gavron briefly reports on the enquiry being conducted by the London Assembly into these matters, so that policies can be recommended for truly public spaces in London.Mark Lemanski sets out approaches that MUF architecture/art have used to encourage more profound public engagement with London’s public realm, through how public stewardship limits or enhances choice and inclusivity. Oliver Wainwright takes the recent achievements of Design for London as the subject for his piece, and argues for engagement with London’s public space at two levels, the strategic and the detailed. Stitching together fragmented landscapes represents a critical task requiring careful, coordinated public sector action.To conclude, Matthew Carmona considers how the governance of design has operated in London in the recent past, and how London might be better shaped in the future. In the downturn London can ill-afford to rest on its laurels, but must invest in place-shaping capacity now if it is to compete on the global stage in the future.This issue also features a compelling viewpoint on the legacy value of the 2012 Olympics proposals and processes by Benz Kotzen and Gulsen Guler. Mike Biddulph, recipient of the UDG’s inaugural research fund presents his first stage report on shared streets. As a past regular contributor, CABE concludes its current series of articles with a longer piece on the design and siting of waste to energy plants. Following the successful awards event this February, the winner of the Student Awards is illustrated, along with the runners up. Regular features include book reviews, the practice and education indexes, and the insightful Endpiece by Joe Holyoak. The Urban Design interview in this issue is urban designer/ artist/ hotel operator Rajesh Rana.
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Urban Design 117 - Winter 2011

Urban Design 117 - Winter 2011

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موضوع: طراحی شهری پایدار

ECO-URBAN DESIGN
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Publication Date: 01 January 2011
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Urban Design 116 - Autumn 2010

Urban Design 116 - Autumn 2010

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موضوع: میراث المپیک

OLYMPIC LEGACY
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Publication Date: 01 October 2011​

 

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Urban Design 115 - Summer 2010

Urban Design 115 - Summer 2010

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موضوع: حومه های شهر در قرن 21

21st Century Suburbs
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Publication Date: 01 July 2010

Architects, planners and urban designers have tended to shun the suburbs as being sub-urban, an inferior kind of environment, neither rural nor really urban. Yet most people live in suburbs and, because of the neglect of professionals, they are the territory where volume builders rule.​

This issue of Urban Design looks at suburbs in a more positive way and attempts to give them a new image for the future. Jon Rowland, the topic editor for this issue, has assembled articles by a number of thinkers, commentators and practitioners with the objective of putting forward ideas for the design and development of the 21[SUP]st[/SUP] century suburb.​

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  [*=left]Alastair Donald sees criticism of the suburbs as being elitist;
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On another matter of interest to our readers, Neil Double adds to the previous issue’s topic dealing with local authority work, by describing how the London Borough of Tower Hamlets embedded urban design into their Local Development Framework. Meanwhile another international contribution comes from Mauricio Hernandez Bonilla who looks at the role of public spaces in Mexico’s divided society.​

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Urban Design 114 – Spring 2010

Urban Design 114 – Spring 2010

Urbanism in Scotland
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Publication date: 01 April 2010

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The main topic of this issue of Urban Design is Scotland and our contributors, assembled by Alona Martinez-Perez, explore how they define and are working to improve Scottish place-making, through policies and projects.​

These include Riccardo Marini, City Design Leader for Edinburgh City Council challenging thinking about place-making for a more ambitious, spatially-led planning system; Diarmaid Lawlor of Architecture and Design Scotland introduces the policy contexts and the influences that this brings to design. Francis Newton and Alona Martinez-Perez look at the growth of UDG activities in the region. Cristina Gonzalez-Longo examines the Scottish Parliament as a framework for contemporary Scottish urban places. Eugene Mullan and Alistair Scott of Smith Scott Mullan argue for more positive engagement with the Scottish landscape to achieve more liveable urban places. Ewan Anderson of 7N Architects describes the innovative urban framework for Spiers Lock in Glasgow. The proposed Waverley train line connecting the Borders to Edinburgh is explored by Oliver Chapman Architects, and Duncan Whatmore looks at place-making in projects that combine engineering and design. Visionary plans need ambitious leaders and John Deffenbaugh explores the influence of political leadership in Chicago and Glasgow. Finally Dr. Lorens Holm and Paul Guzzardo of the Geddes Institute (Dundee University) link the place teaching of Patrick Geddes to Dundee’s creative capital, exploring a framework for place-based talent and technology.​

There is also a collection of viewpoints reporting on aspects of shared public spaces: Mike Biddulph reviews thirteen completed home zones for their safety and accident records; Tim Long explains the work of the Clear Zone Partnership in London creating exemplary shared spaces through re-thinking street spaces. Ye Zhang and Alastair Donald challenge ideas about risk in public space, and whether ideas have moved on since CABE’s 2005 publication. On the regular CABE page, Stella Manning describes recent research cataloguing the nation’s urban green spaces and their use by local people.There are reports of UDG talks, and the first two shortlisted Francis Tibbalds Award projects from the new year’s selection are featured – AECOM’s Heart of Doha Masterplan, and Tibbalds Enham Alamein village housing, plus four new book reviews.


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Urban Design 113 - Winter 2010

Urban Design 113 - Winter 2010

Local authorities and urban design
Publication date: 01 January 2010

The role of local authorities in framing their area’s environment is rarely mentioned other than through some form of criticism. Yet in many instances they have a very positive - though rarely recognised - influence. This issue ofUrban Design celebrates the contributions made by a cross-section of public authorities to improve the quality of design. Tim Hagyard, himself a Development Control Manager in a district authority, has assembled a collection of articles which show the variety of initiatives taken by authorities not just in England but also in Wales and Scotland. These range from the now venerable Es*** Design Guide for Residential Areas - still influential today - through the continuous work of the County Council’s Built Environment Branch, to urban design training for Fife’s officers and members; and from Design Review Panels to Design Champions in various guises. What these articles show is that there is an array of reflection and leadership in the public sector, without which implemented schemes would not achieve an acceptable level of quality. If overall standards have improved in the past few years, it is as a result of the work outlined in the pages of this issue.​

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Urban Design also has a new image; following consultation with the readership the magazine has a fresher, crisper and more up-to-date image. It has also a few extra pages to accommodate the student projects presented by students of Master courses in urban design.​

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The fact that Urban Design is of international interest is shown by the contributions made by overseas authors, in this case from Argentina and Israel. And to challenge a possibly too comfortable urban design orthodoxy, Darryl Chen has produced a series of annotated sketches.​

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As usual there is more in this issue of Urban Design; a contribution from CABE and the regular interview of one of our members, book reviews and reports of events, plus the usual Endpiece by Joe Holyoak
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Urban Design 112 - Autumn 2009

Urban Design 112 - Autumn 2009

Coastal Towns
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Publication Date: 01 October 2009


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The main topic of this issue of Urban Design is coastal towns, and our contributors explore how they are tackling often common problems and reshaping their spaces to offer leisure, employment and residential opportunities for residents and visitors alike.
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These include Littlehampton, already seeing a change of perceptions with Thomas Heatherwick’s iconic East Beach Café, and now starting to examine its waterfront with a strategy for the public realm, described by Honoré van Rijswijk. Well advanced in developing its vision and partnerships, Rob Allen shows how Blackpool is creating a new outdoor destination at the famous Tower’s Headland area. Eastbourne is repositioning itself for the culture market with its Towner Gallery - home of artist Eric Ravilious’ work, described by Jefferson Collard. This summer Brighton, Portsmouth and Southampton have all witnessed a series of temporary public space installations in collaborative projects by the local councils and universities, reported by Miranda Pearce of SEEDA.​

Philip Watkins, Chief Executive of 1st East explains how Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth have been reconnecting their waterfronts to their towns and winning young people’s attention in the process. Taking its mandate from local community interests, Nick Taylor of Scarborough Renaissance describes the sustained dialogue creating projects and themed initiatives throughout the town. Leading with its public realm, Marian Barber illustrates how Weston-super-Mare has been improving and linking its destinations to set quality standards for further developments. Lastly Chris Hall, who initiated the topic following the UDG event in July 2008, provides a valuable review of the main challenges facing coastal towns, and the solutions being tested to give them greater vitality and viability.​

There is also a selection of challenging viewpoints, largely about urban designers and their role in the development process: Eline Hansen challenges ideas that urban design is about the common good, rather than just benefitting groups of desirable people; Peter Fletcher describes his role in Croydon’s unique Local Asset Backed Vehicle (LABV); and, Jonathan Kendall sets out 10 lessons on integrating practice development in Riga, Latvia. Georgia Giannopoulou reflects on the pressures on Psiri, a quarter of Athens, and its regeneration processes.​

Tom Bolton of CABE describes championing of ordinary places, and the Urban Design Interview learns more about Ken Baker, a key designer of Milton Keynes’ city centre. There are also reports of UDG talks, the study trip to Moscow and The Golden Ring, and the 2009 Annual General Meeting. In a break from featuring shortlisted award projects, this issue revisits two places – Ashford and its shared spaces by Sebastian Loew, and the Isle of Dogs by Matthew Carmona. Urban Design is the leading journal in its field.​

 

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Urban Design 111 - Summer 2009

Urban Design 111 - Summer 2009

Big City Planning
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Publication Date: 01 July 2009


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One hundred years ago, in July 1909, Burnham’s Chicago Plan, the model for the City beautiful school of planning, was published. It was particularly influential in the United States but it was also a reference for urban designers throughout the world during a good part of the 20[SUP]th[/SUP] Century. Issue 111 of Urban Design celebrates this anniversary not just by looking at the Chicago plan itself, how it was developed and what it achieved, but also by considering other city scale designs in this country and abroad. Jonathan Bore analyses Birmingham’s Big City Plan, perhaps one of the most interesting examples of its kind, whilst Neil Emery argues that in the case of Plymouth both the local and the city-wide scales are combined in planning the city’s future. Amy Pressman compares the design of new capital cities in the 20[SUP]th[/SUP] and 21[SUP]st[/SUP] Centuries. From Berkeley, California, Professor Bosselmann looks at the evolution of cities from a great distance and makes a fascinating comparison between some of the world’s largest conurbations. Finally Paul Fraser wonders whether the eco-towns programme is ambitious enough.
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Other contributions to this issue of Urban Design include an very topical argument in favour of Sustainable Urban Design by Professor Matthew Carmona, a recommendation to improve Conservation Area Character appraisals by Derek Abbott and John MacBryde and an attack against rates imposed on empty properties by Lee Pugalis.​

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The last two projects shortlisted for this year’s Francis Tibbalds Award are also published in this issue: Richard Reid and associates present their development for a holiday village, the Lower Mill Estate in Clearwater; Planit show how urban design added value to a pre-existing master plan fro St. Petersfield in Ashton-under-Lyne.​

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As usual there is more in this issue of Urban Design; a contribution from CABE Space and the regular interview of one of our members, book reviews and reports of events, plus the usual Endpiece by Joe Holyoak



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Urban Design 110 - Spring 2009

Urban Design 110 - Spring 2009

Urban Design Education




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The main topic of this issue of Urban Design is urban design education and a variety of authors illustrate how it can reach across disciplines and provide a common understanding of the built environment.​

Carlton Roberts-James, Head of Skills at CABE, sets out the challenges for education given the current economic and environmental context. Professor Georgia Butina-Watson describes the Joint Centre for Urban Design’s approach, enabling a wide variety of people to learn about urban design at Oxford Brookes University. Sebastian Loew asks whether the jungle of urban design CPD courses (continuing professional development) are bringing the right people together and whether they are in fact the best methods of increasing urban design skills and knowledge. Esther Kurland reports on the work of Urban Design London, providing educational opportunities for London borough staff.

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Doug Brown describes his midlife discovery of urban design and how that has changed his career and perspective; Daniela Lucchese reveals her own unconventional route to urban design, as an education in lateral thinking; and Cindy Carmelia describes her journey from architecture into urban design and what it now adds to her own sense of professional purpose. Joanne Cave offers ideas for those entering urban design consultancy and how to equip graduates of any age with appropriate opportunities to explore and demonstrate their creative potential. Just as the Urban Design Group has launched the Recognised Practitioner affiliation, Micheal Lowndes and Katy Neaves reflect on what it will mean for individuals and employers alike.

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There is also a wide selection of challenging viewpoints: Micheal Short, John Pendlebury and Aidan While explore the tensions when World Heritage Sites become a major part of a city, and how that effects future plans for regeneration. Laura Alvarez considers whether recent economic pressures have left humanism in their wake and the need to allow more people to shape their environments. Tim Hagyard sets out an agenda to give development control more power to deliver better places, through universal design guidance requirements, leadership, and greater resources. Alona Martinez looks at what sustainable urbanism means for Scottish policies in practice. John Thompson and Kevin Murray report on the Academy of Urbanism’s progress in ‘learning from place’.
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Urban Design 109 - Winter 2009

Urban Design 109 - Winter 2009

Re-imagining the City







Publication Date: 01 January 2009


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The new Urban Design magazine challenges existing orthodoxies and may well upset a few people. Alastair Donald, the topic editor, has assembled a team of contributors who take their clues from early 20th Century visionaries such as the Futurists and who want great ideas uncontrolled by timid bureaucracies. So for instance, they challenge some aspects of sustainability and promote a form of libertarian citizenry, both of which will not be to everyone’s taste. Ian Abley regrets the lack of vision in the plans for the Thames Gateway. Paul Reeves and Austin William mourn the disappearance of daring technologies promoted half a century ago; Pauline Hadaway questions the reality behind the re-branding of Belfast and Doland Cummings mounts a guerrilla war against limitations on the use of public space. Richard Williams even makes connections between ***uality and urban design.​

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Urban Design is a wide chapel and the editors felt that the voices of dissent should be given a forum. The reader’s reaction will be interesting.​

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There is more in the January issue of Urban Design: Matthew Carmona reports on the last of the ESRC sponsored seminars on the Urban Renaissance, which took place in London and covered a number of flagship schemes in the capital and surroundings, while Sebastian Loew describes a workshop that brought together French and English built environment specialists to look at major projects in the Thames Gateway and the Paris surroundings. Lee Pugalis on the other hand attempts to demonstrate that cultural vitality and economic competitiveness can reinforce each other.​

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Following the first Francis Tibbalds Award for the best case study published by the magazine, the first two contenders for the 2009 award, Temple Quay2, Bristol by URBED and Jon Rowlanbd Urban Design, and Scott Browning’s scheme for East Quay, Farneham, are published here.
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Urban Design 108 - Autumn 2008

Urban Design 108 - Autumn 2008

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[/h]Spaces in Between (فضاهای مابین)



Publication Date: 01 October 2008

The main topic of this issue of Urban Design examines ‘the spaces in between’, led by Quentin Stevens. This idea refers to the many urban spaces that remain ‘in-between’ the boundaries, definitions, rules and management regimes that urban designers typically seek to produce and enforce. The authors that he has drawn together emphasise the virtues of messy ‘betweenness’, illustrating how it can stimulate and sustain valued forms of social behaviour and identity. The contributors - sociologists, human geographers, environmental psychologists, artists and architects - combine observations of places in the UK, US and Europe. We recognise these places as what makes out towns and cities diverse, multi-functional and personal, and add the unexpected richness that we enjoy.
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Professor Karen A. Franck considers pavements or sidewalks in the American cities of New York and Los Angeles, and the role that they play in supporting community life. David Bell describes the state of the ‘outside’ in British city centres, and the confusing messages that recent policy changes have attached to it. Justin Spinney argues for cycling to be seen as between the traffic and pedestrians, with very different needs and motivations. Professor Sophie Watson describes two situations where public-private spaces and uses have become highly cherished places within London, and Can Altay explores creative popular reinterpretations of urban space in Ankara and London.​

This issue also sees the notable case study of Newhall Harlow reviewed, as its second phase gets underway. Judith Ryser reports from Aviles in northern Spain on the city’s plans for cultural renewal, and the sub-regional authority - the Principality of Asturias - has generously sponsored this issue. Following the theme of the cultural cities in UD 106, John Montgomery presents the important ingredients for cultural quarters, but often missing from planned areas. Mauricio Hernández-Bonilla describes the remarkable self-build urban design underway in Mexican low income neighbourhoods, to create genuine public places. Ecologist Barbara Goncalves provides a useful summary of the benefits of using green roofs, how they work and sources of further information. As the third comparative ESRC seminar report on urban design and the British urban renaissance, Steve Tiesdell gives an illustrated précis of discussions on Liverpool, Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Urban Design 107 - Summer 2008

Urban Design 107 - Summer 2008

Urban Design 107 - Summer 2008
Liverpool: European Capital of Culture
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Publication Date: 01 July 2008

To celebrate Liverpool as European Capital of Culture 2008, the latest issue of Urban Design, explores various aspects of this great north-western city. Dr. Robert McDonald, reader in Architecture at Liverpool John Moores University is the topic editor for this issue and he has assembled a series of fascinating articles on issues ranging from the consequences of the designation of the city on UNESCO’s World Heritage list written by John Hinchcliffe, through the Liverpool Biennial presented by Lewis Biggs, to a discussion on the relationship between city design and health by Dr. John Ashton. Specific schemes such as Liverpool One and Ropewalks are critically analysed by Rob McDonald and Bill Maynard of Urban Splash respectively. Colin Dyas of Liverpool vision gives a very personal view of place and Professor Douglas Clelland offers a different view of masterplanning. Finally John Stonard wonders what the long term effect of the European Capital of Culture designation might be. The Urban Design Group will further explore some of these themes at its conference on 10-11 October 2008.
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The Summer issue includes the second of four reports on seminars organised by the ESRC which look at urban Design and the British urban Renaissance. These seminars are being organised in cities round the country and the current issue covers Manchester, Nexcastle, Sheffield and Leeds. A contribution by Jeremy Caulton advocates ‘slow’ design whilst Lily Kong of Singapore makes an overseas contribution to the creativity debate covered in the previous issue.​

An innovation started in issue 106 was the Urban Design Interview which presents the views of a colleague who has contributed to the profession but is not normally in the limelight.​

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Urban Design 106 - Spring 2008

Urban Design 106 - Spring 2008

Urban Design 106 - Spring 2008

Creative Cities
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Publication Date: 01 April 2008

This issue of Urban Design examines Creative Cities. – a concept widely talked about, but rarely clear to many. Topic Editor Judith Ryser has assembled a first class group of contributors from across Europe, Africa and Australia, and introduces the articles with a review of early ‘creative industries’, the universities that grew from them, and more recently whether today’s places and spaces are conducive to encouraging creativity and innovation. This issue is about creativity as a process and a way of solving problems; innovative strategies for economic development and future management; but also proposals for places to inspire and motivate us in daily life.​

Charles Landry takes this further to explore the future for the creative city, where ‘ordinary people can make the extra-ordinary happen if given the chance’, describing the city as an organism and not a machine. He challenges us to adopt a creative approach to place-making by re-assessing our priorities in management, design, transport, resources and infrastructure. Alfonso Vegara describes the Fundación Metropoli’s unique approach to making spaces for the creative eco-economy, defining clusters, components and city profiles of excellence to give cities a plan for change based upon their existing character, with examples from Spain. Maria Tena Justice describes the Fundación’s own home in Madrid - The EcoBox – which exemplifies a creative place in its design, purpose and inhabitants.​

Antwerp’s Mayor Patrick Janssens describes the city’s approach to the new Strategic Spatial Structure Plan, linking the city, river and port, with a diverse and family-friendly population as their target. Kate Brennan, Chief Executive of the company that manages Federation Square in Melbourne (featured in UD98) describes the creativity required to maintain and develop this important civic space in Australia as a source of inspiration to others. Robert Huxford revisits ways of realising liquid assets – the waterways threading through towns and countryside, showing the value of innovative approaches adopted.​

Mervi Illmonen and Klaus Kunzmann write about Arabianranta in Finland, an urban extension that has taken creative industries as its theme and principal product in the university campus, while Juan Pradas and Jose Carlos Arnal illustrate the interesting Milla Digital project in Zaragoza. Both places draw upon IT to enliven everyday activities in the regeneration of urban districts. Gerfried Stocker artistic director of Ars Electronica describes this innovative body established in Linz Austria, with its festivals, facilities and agenda, ranging from encouraging multidisciplinary interaction to engaging the city’s population in urban installations.​

From Durban in South Africa, Peter Robinson and Richard Dobson describe a process of redesigning an urban interchange from the grass-roots level up, where the creativity displayed by local people demonstrates Landry’s early belief. Andy Pratt concludes the topic with a challenge to understand urban creative industries as this is a major source of economic power.​

This issue also sees two more short listed case studies for the Francis Tibbalds Urban Design Project Awards – from Urban Initiatives and JRUD. A new feature The Urban Design Interview is kicked off with independent urban designer Amanda Reynolds giving her opinions on life, the UDG and good cities. John Punter begins a series reviewing the ongoing ESRC comparative seminars debating the impact of ‘Urban Design and the British Urban Renaissance’ in different cities, with reports from Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff and Nottingham. Alastair Donald describes a project which is being developed to enable more self-build neighbourhoods, cutting out house builders, their house types and soulless estates. Claire Johnson of CABE outlines the continuing success of the Europan design competition.
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Urban Design 105 - Winter 2008

Urban Design 105 - Winter 2008

Urban Design 105 - Winter 2008
The Joy of Streets
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Publication Date: 01 January 2008

Following the publication of Manual for Streets, the latest issue of Urban Design, the quarterly journal of the Urban Design Group, covers diverse and new approaches to the public realm aimed at recovering the joy of streets. For a good part of the 20[SUP]th[/SUP] Century those responsible for our streets were more concerned with moving cars fluidly and safely. Today we have rediscovered them as places to enjoy and Issue 105 of Urban Design considers ways of promoting and achieving this aim. The issue has been generously sponsored by Colin Buchanan & partners
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The issue’s topic editor, Robert Huxford who coincidentally is now the Urban Design Group’s Director, has assembled a collection of papers by experts, most of whom have been involved in the production of the DCLG and DfT Manual for Streets. Phil Jones explains the thinking behind that document. Tim Pharoah provides an overview of changes in street design. Ben Hamilton-Baillie calls for a re-assessment for the practices in the streets. Martina Juvara addresses the question of measuring value. Paul Hewson introduces the world of evidence based design and Ben Castells rounds up by giving his view on the importance of Manual for Streets.​

On a slightly different but related topic, Karl Kropf puts forward a low-tech, high-intelligence methodology for analyzing movement. Michael Short looks at the different ways that two English cities deal with tall buildings in their historic cores.​

Starting in the Summer, Urban Design has been publishing schemes shortlisted for the Francis Tibbalds Prize which will be awarded in September. In this issue an urban extension in Iceland, Urridaholt, designed by John Thompson & Partners, and a masterplan for Merton Rise in Basingstoke prepared by Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design are presented.

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[h=1]Urban Design 104 - Autumn 2007
Milton Keynes at 40 [/h]

Publication Date: 01 October 2007

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This specially extended issue of Urban Design looks at Milton Keynes, the UK’s last New Town designated in 1967. Milton Keynes is unusual in that it was designed around the car and as a city of trees; it has become such a successful place to live and work, that it now needs to grow. How that growth is designed and managed poses the question – should it reproduce the original city’s design or is it time to update the master plan?
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The Topic Editor Liezel Kruger, Associate Urban Designer at planning and urban design consultants David Lock Associates has first hand experience of living in Milton Keynes (MK) and working on proposals for its growth, and brings together a wide array of contributors to the city’s development to-date.​

Mike Macrae, one of the original Llewelyn-Davies team describes the design process and ideas prior to the ‘handover’ of the master plan to Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC). Derek Walker, MKDC’s Chief Architect and Planner, describes how the in-house team designed the city structure and many grid squares in more detail. Andrew Mahaddie reveals the origins and development of the city’s famous grid system, and Mike Synnott of the City Discovery Centre debates the handling of heritage and local identity in MK’s planning. Neil Higson and Andrew Mahaddie describe the greening of MK and its maintenance by Milton Keynes Parks Trust.​

With Milton Keynes Partnership (MKP), a partnership between English Partnerships (the major land owner of undeveloped MK), Milton Keynes Council (MKC) and local organisations now driving the delivery of growth, Jane Hamilton describes MKP’s co-ordination and implementation roles. This includes the innovative £18,500 Infrastructure Tariff payable by developers per property built, and how this is used to provide facilities and amenities for local communities. John Best, Chief Executive of MKC and Kevin Whiteside, Chief Highways and Transportation Engineer, describe expansion areas and newer developments, and how they are challenging the city’s initial master plan. Neil Sainsbury gives his perspective on the work of an urban designer at MKC. Miles Leigh, of architects Allies and Morrison, explains proposed changes and extensions to the popular Shopping Building to respond to the growth in demand. Challenging preconceptions, Pacquita Lamacraft and Edna Read describe the city’s diverse and lively culture and public art scenes, and how these have been nurtured over the last forty years.​

Local architect, Bill Sung laments the city’s lack of strong architecture and highlights recent successful designs proposals. Richard Cole undertakes another in his ‘Revisited’ series, and wonders whether MK is ‘throwing the baby out with the bath water’ as it changes? To conclude, David Lock having set out a valuable summary of MK’s evolution in the introduction, urges readers to learn urban planning and design lessons from the city, especially as new initiatives such as Eco-Towns are being considered.

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Urban Design 103 - Summer 2007

Urban Design 103 - Summer 2007

Urban Design 103 - Summer 2007
Core Cities




Publication Date: 01 July 2007

News And Events
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Design in the Planning Process 3​

Delivering Climate Change 3​

Shifting Sands 4​

Cityscape 4​

David Ubaka UCE Birmingham lecture 5​

What Policies for Globalising Cities? 6​

CABE page 7​

Young Urban Designer, Soul Eyes 8​

Young Urban Designer, Urban Invasion 9​

Viewpoints​

Ecopolis Now?, Alastair Donald 10​

The Far Pavilions, John Mullin 12​

Internat ional​

1+1=3: Paris gets its sums right!, Didier Couval 14​

Topic: Core cities​

Introduction, Chris Murray 16​

Sheffield: Design at the Heart of the City, John Mothersole 17​

Leeds: Financing high-quality public realm, Cath Follin 20​

Waterfront regeneration in Bristol, Simon Caplan 23​

Manchester: Revival In City Centre Living, Louise Hope 25​

Making It Happen in Liverpool, Colin Hilton 27​

Birmingham: Planning at the Heart, Philip Singleton 29​

Newcastle’s Designs on Growth, Marie Fallon 31​

Design 07 – Nottingham’s Design Campaign, Nigel Turpin 34​

Case Studies​

The Process of Urban Design-led Development, Adam Mills 36​

Awakening The West End - The Regeneration of Plymouth’s​

Independent Retail Quarter, Neil Emery 38​

Book Reviews​

Loose Space, Karen A. Franck and Quentin Stevens (eds) 40​

The Urban Design Reader, M Larice and E Macdonald (eds.) 40​

City Renewal through Partnership: Birmingham,​

Ariella Masbounghi (ed) 41​

Graphics for Urban Design, B Meeda, N Parkyn, D S Walton 41​

Pract ice Index 42​

Corporate Index 48​

Educat ion Index 49​

Endpiece Joe Holyoak 49
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